Python: Iteration Plan for March 2024

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This plan captures our work on the Python Extension in March 2024. We follow the same iteration cycle as VS Code. Although we plan for a whole iteration, we may not only ship at the end of an iteration but throughout.

Legend of annotations

Mark	Description
🏃‍♀️	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Getting started

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Environments

• Explore adding support for Hatch and Pixi Environments; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
  • Hatch; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
  • Pixi; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Explore supporting version constraints for various tools for automatic environment selection; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
  • Pyenv; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
  • Pipenv; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
  • Poetry; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)
• Investigate API for workflow contributions; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Editing

N/A

Terminal

• Address VS Code issues regarding environment collection and shell integration; issue; Kartik Raj (@karrtikr)

REPL

• Fix shell integration bugs; issue; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 🏃‍♀️ Spike to find common ground between Python REPL and IW; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1) Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• Remove Smart Send experiment in favor of setting; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 💪 Unify Python REPL triggers; issue; Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Debugging

• ✋ Improve "Run and debug" button support; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Django and Flask startup script selection; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Implement Report Issue API for vscode-python and python-debugger; issue Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 🏃‍♀️ Remove copy of debugpy from Python extension; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)

Testing

• 💪 🏃‍♀️ Switch to named pipes for testing communication; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• 💪 🏃‍♀️ Fix remaining issues to remove test rewrite experiment code; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 💪 🏃‍♀️ Plan custom args user study; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)

vscode.dev

N/A

Documentation

N/A

API

N/A

Engineering

• Isolate Python code so it doesn't conflict with user code; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)

Python community

• Add WASI to CPython CI; discussion; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• Get CPython test suite passing under wasmtime --wasi preview2 for wastmtime 18; issue; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃‍♀️ PyCascades planning; Dawn Gibson Wages (@dawnwages) Luciana Abud (@luabud)
• 🏃‍♀️ PyCon US planning; Dawn Gibson Wages (@dawnwages)

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Deferred Items

• 🔵🏃‍♀️ Adopt proposed API for testing coverage feature; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• Investigate contributing a callout for automatic configuration in Debug Start View; issue; Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• 💪 Start refactoring code for custom args; issue; Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• 🏃‍♀️ ⬛ Implement a dependency resolver with a customizable API; Brett Cannon (@brettcannon)
• 🏃 Add launch support for test discovery and execution in settings.json; issue Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• Implement a Python traceback problem matcher in core
• ✋ 🔴 Use conda run when debugging (waiting on the conda team to give us the go-ahead to rely on conda run so fundamentally); Paula (@paulacamargo25)
• Investigate how we configure running and debugging
• ✋ Write web tests; issue; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)
• Unify venvPath and venvFolders; issue
• 🔴 💪 Investigate a contribution point for workflow extensions; Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig)